Note 4 — Chapter XXXIII · THE SILVER AND (SO-CALLED) QUICKSILVER MINES OF NERTCHINSK.

This is the place to which the Russian poet Mikhaïloff was banished for writing his proclamation or manifesto, Molodom pokoleniou, “To the rising generation,” as was also his literary friend Tchernichewsky, who is called the intellectual chief and founder of Nihilism. Mikhaïloff died and was buried at Kadaya; Tchernichewsky, who it seems is feeble and delicate in constitution, was not compelled to work, nor did he carry chains; and after spending a certain time at Kadaya, he was removed to Viluisk, in the province of Yakutsk.